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structions,. if any, given to the.po'lice, regarding the handling of thesecases; upon the treatment of personsarrested; upon the disposition of theircases in court;, upon any discrimination b'etween plcketers and privatepolicemen in the use"bf the streets,and upon any other feature of thissituation essential, to the formationof just conclusions by this counciland the public.""I am introducing this resolutionat the urgent request of severalprominent Chicago clubwomen," saidAid. Merriam.The coppers in front of Henrici'swere playing "Tag, you're it," and"Who's loony now?" all day yesterday to the vast amusement of thecurious on the street and the indignation of waitresses arrested whilepeacefully walking up and down.These games, as played by the representatives of the law, consist of aspasmodic reaching after a waitresswhenever the cop feels a twitching. in his arm.No cop plays the game alone, sinceit is a dangerous one to tag a slendergirl picket. The cop with the spasmodic twitch is always backed up byseveral plain clothes men if he is inuniform and several brass buttonsif he is in plain clothes.After the tagging, the army of fathuskies escort the one or two littlegirls down the street, bawling loudly:"Keep out of the way there, moveon." And the citizens are ruthlesslypushed right and left by the huskybodyguard of the twitching cop.On the. corner of Clark and Randolph, the game halts while the officer -with the twitch summons apatrol wagon, and while he is attending to this, the girl waitresses dosome mighty clever press work byadvising the curious that there is astrike on at Henrici's, and that thegirls are asking six days a week workinstead of seven, and $8 wages.A disgruntled police sergeant, notrealizing that the cops were the an- jswer to "Who's looney now?" assured bystanders that thd waitresseswere "crazy." But those waitressesare the cleverest crazy people we eversaw.There has been no manhandling inthe last few days since one of thewaitresses who was man-handled,sued the cop for $15,000. That discourages a cop even when he's .playing tag.At the evening vaudeville performance Officer No. 813 came on dutywearing his kid gloves. He is quite ahandsome bloke, very tall and beefyand he minces his steps like a tangomaster.No. 813 acknowledges the name ofMike Hurley, and Mike has thetwitches very bad. He got two girlsjust like that "tag, you're it." . .These he had taken to the Harrison street police station and then hewent back and secured three othersby the same method. His bodyguardwas very large and handsome. Somebrunettes, a few stately blonds, andothers.The vaudeville was held on the corner for fifteen minutes before the second patrol came, and sometimes Mikethe Handsome Tango dancer wentout in the'street and scolded real hardat the people who were listening toMrs. Timeus tell them of the strikeon at Henrici's where girls are worked seven days a week for $7 a week.One brunette plain clothes manwith quite expressive eyes had a halfNelson grip on one of the girl's wrists,which she resented, and- for a fewbreathless seconds we feared hewould' be the next defendant in a $15,000 suit, but some graceful tangosteps executed by Mike the Handsome sort of turned the brunette'sthought into gentleness and he endedby carrying, on quite a flirtatious conversatiomvith the girl picket and surrounding listeners. tMike, the Handsome Tango danger,accompanied this batch of girls to thestation at 180 N. LaSalle, andliie wasso gallant that we feel constrained